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Midwives is a 2022 Burmese documentary film directed by Hnin Ei Hlaing, exploring the relationship between a Buddhist Bamar midwife and her Muslim Rohingya apprentice in a village in Rakhine State in western Myanmar. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking.
Jan 28, 2022 · The prestigious Sundance festival just gave one of its big awards to Midwives, a film about a midwife and her apprentice. That sounds like a simple story — but in fact, it's full of twists and...
Jan 26, 2023 · Midwives: Directed by Hnin Ei Hlaing. Two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State.
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- Hnin Ei Hlaing
- 2023-01-26
Two women in a region beset by violent ethnic divisions run a makeshift medical clinic. Winner, 2022 Sundance World Cinema Documentary, Excellence Verité Filmmaking.
Jan 24, 2022 · Sundance doc 'Midwives,' directed by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, centers on two women, one Buddhist, one Muslim, working across Myanmar's divide.
Jan 24, 2022 · A small-scale, covert glimpse of the lives led behind the headlines – 1m Rohingya still live in refugee camps outside the country, the victims of ethnic-cleansing – Midwives should find a home ...
Feb 1, 2022 · January 24, 2022 — For the fourth consecutive year, Asia Society hosts conversations honoring Asian filmmakers and talent at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival....
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